BUSTED: Top Vegan Nutrition Myths

[Lovely]

If your interest The Huffington Post did an article about Vegan nutrition Myths:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nil-za...ef=mostpopular

This could be useful to vegans how are currently faced negative responses
from people who believe these myths so I thought I would share it :)

Thanks for mentioning the article Lovely. I did happen to read it earlier in the day and it had some good info in it.

[norseman]

Huffington Post - that paragon of unbiased truth !

Originally Posted by norseman

Huffington Post - that paragon of unbiased truth !

It's a mixed bag. As far as unbiased, I guess it depends on your opinion as compared to the opinions of the various writers, doesn't it?

Besides Norseman, I might say the same for whatever publication that you read. Every article is steeped in bias, even those which aspire to present 'only the facts' because when the rubber hits the road, it always depends on the individual who is choosing which facts to include in their article.

Thats a good article but for people who this is really important to,it isnt gonna matter....

Is IT true that eating certain foods can make ya feel not so good........ (Alot of GMO stuff can do it)

[Sapphirez]

I think it's highly possible the author of that has their heart in the right-ish place. We are tending to doubt everyone and that's certainly understandable.. but at the end of the day most people are innocent and just trying to make sense of our world the same as us.. unfortunately most are misguided, but not as many sold their soul or are bought and paid for as we might think..


I can't say for sure, but all that being said there are serious flaws with the content of this article.


We can get all the "protein" we want from almost any plant. I saw a chart of amino acid makeup of various foods and guess what, even fruit contains every last one of them amino acids.. Too much protein is a huge problem, so anybody talking about getting enough protein is misguided. There are of course cases, mainly in certain areas most of us are lucky to not live in, where getting enough food period is very hard but that's another story.



The body uses amino acids as it deems fit, and we don't need to do "combining" of specific things to achieve our amino acid quota. The important thing is trying to eat as we're designed as best we can (as frugivores) and that includes consuming raw food above almost anything else, because it has what we need most and cooking destroys it.

Cooked food in general, barring herbs, is not ideal. So telling people to make sure they get their beans and grains is terrible advice. However, if we are to indulge in cooked food and want to be healthy, the most sensible cooked foods I find are


lentils

chickpeas

quinoa

other grains that are also actually seeds, like buckwheat, teff, amaranth I think, plus others I can't recall

sweet potatoes (I love the flavor of Japanese sweet potatoes. They're a light creamy color inside and it tastes sort of like pancakes & maple syrup lol. also to me purple sweet potatoes taste way better than orange)

It's not really healthy, but for flours if we choose to use them, we can look to nuts, such as almond & pecan, and chickpea/garbanzo beans flour is actually really tasty too

Nuts, seeds, grains and legumes become easier to digest when they are raw and soaked, or sprouted. But our bodies don't require dense foods like that, so always consider them treats..


The author mentioned milk being unnecessary for calcium but I don't think they mentioned that things in it actually contribute to depleting our calcium. It is very acidifying and full of toxic substances that interfere with our health and wellbeing.

There might be more to address, but I guess that's enough food for thought for now lol 💛

[Gem]

Originally Posted by Sapphirez

There might be more to address, but I guess that's enough food for thought for now lol 💛

It's true that plant proteins are less bio-available than animal proteins, and vegan diets are typically rather low on protein, but you can supplement with a pea protein or something if you're a bit short, and it's fine.

There is a difference between getting enough and getting the best amount, so a sensible vegan diet will probably have more than enough, but typically falls short of the optimal amount.

"Too much" protein is pretty hard to get, so it's not a concern in any reasonable diet.

There are essential amino acids we can only get from food. They do different things, so we need a mixture of all the essential amino acids. The article suggestions cover the bases, but vegans would generally benefit from a supplement.

Lentils and the other two you mentioned are reasonable protein (and carb) sources.

Cooked food is fine, but a mix of raw is even better.

Activating the germination of seeds is a very good idea!

Milk won't reduce bone density and there is no 'adicity or toxins', but milk isn't great (though whey protein is the best there is). There is adequate calcium in plants, and having plenty of plant food is best for health for near enough all people.

[Podshell]

Not read the article but does it mention culturing the gut biome? That would seem important to me for it to be the correct mix to help deal with certain foodstuffs.

Proper milk and its many products like cheese and yogurt are some the best foods, but almost impossible to get now.We have sold out for convenience and extra production.

[Gem]

Originally Posted by Podshell

Not read the article but does it mention culturing the gut biome? Proper milk and its many products like cheese and yogurt are some the best foods,

It's thought that a good gut biome is the result of a wider variety of food, and fiber more generally, rather than the result of any one food group in particular. Some will say cultured dairy, others will say fermented food, but I think if you have a simple whole diet, other things such as gut biome tend to work themselves out. For example, lets say someone isn't eating very well. Ingesting cultured dairy etc isn't going to help, so we look at at the priorities. If higher priorities like sensible calories from a diverse whole food diet are in place, then you might incorporate specific foods that supposedly enhance guy biome, but if a sensible diet is already in place, you probably don't need it.